Meetings

Advanced Shell Programming

Glenn Stafford

Alliance Systems / MDSI

Abstract

In today's world of GUI environments, character base professionalism
has become a diminishing skill set. As people are more inclined to
drag, drop, and click with icons and GUI menus, emphasis on traditional
skill sets have diminished.

This presentation is a refresher on the strengths of UNIX. To be
specific, this presentation reminds of the strengths of UNIX through
examining very powerful scripting procedures which highlight the
strengths of:

Metacharacter Expansion

Examining useful I/O and Command

Useful Korn Shell Extensions

Line Processing

Very useful examples will be provided which could be utilized in your
UNIX environments. This includes shell programs which are useful tools
for the System Administrator and Users.

Very detailed handouts will be provided to supplement the subject
matter.

Speaker Bio

Glenn is a member of the Customer Support staff at Alliance Systems /
MDSI. Glenn has over 8 years experience with UNIX system
administration; with a strong background with internal and external
support. He is a sophisticated UNIX user in the areas of shell
programming, UNIX regular expression, and Systems Administration.
Glenn has spoken before on very useful topics in UNIX related topics
(shell, perl, and awk programming, and UNIX Security) at UniForum
Chicago meetings and at technical conferences such as Technetron in
Boston (1992 & 1993) and MARUG in Myrtle Beach (1995 and 1996). Glenn
had UNIX tutorials published in "Access To Wang".

In addition to his computer background, Glenn is a prominent Fastpitch
Softball Umpire who has worked four national tournaments. Glenn's name
is enshrined at the A.S.A Hall of Fame in recognition for working three
or more national tournaments. He has the long term goal to work the Pan
American and Olympics. He has also dedicated his time coaching at
softball clinics.

Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56).
Butterfield West to Lambert Rd. Lambert Rd North to first
right after College Road. Park in lots 7 or 8 and
walk to SRC building. Room 1024 is on the first floor of the
SRC building, near the entrance.

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